1871 in Wales

none September 2019 May 2020 1871 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1871 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1871 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen StanleyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 24J.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru University of Wales Press 1992 169 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/morgan-charles-1792-1875 Morgan, Charles Morgan Robinson (1792–1875), of Ruperra, Glam. and Tredegar, Mon. History of Parliament Online 3 July 2013June 2026 InternetArchiveBot Edwin Poole The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions Edwin Poole 1886 378 Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron PenrhynEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 26 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward PryseDeath of Colonel Pryse http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3344911/3344915/21 27 February 2018 Cambrian News 1 June 1888 4 Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulphhttp://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/myddelton-biddulph-robert-1805-1872 Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx. History of Parliament Online 3 December 2021 29 October 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201029224834/https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/myddelton-biddulph-robert-1805-1872 dead Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronethttp://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/glynne-sir-stephen-1807-1874 Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint. 3 December 2021 21 September 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150921215928/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/glynne-sir-stephen-1807-1874 dead Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel TalbotCampbell Thomas Methuen C.R.M. Talbot 1803–1890 Morgannwg 2000 44 66–104 http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewobject/llgc-id:1174908/article/000041850 17 May 2014 Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron MostynEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 29 Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of BeaufortJames Henry Clark History of Monmouthshire County Observer 1869 375 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron SudeleyAmy Audrey Locke The Hanbury Family Arthur L. Humphreys 1916 170 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington Smith Jenny Portraits for a King : the British military paintings of A-J Dubois Drahonet (1791-1834 National Army Museum London 1990 9780901721211 15 Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron OrmathwaiteWalsh, John Benn 59 Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell Fryde E. B. Handbook of British chronology New York Cambridge University Press Cambridge England 1996 9780521563505 292 Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 266 Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua HughesThe Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 307Annual Report Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors National Library of Wales 1962 59 Events 24 February – In a mining accident at Pentre Colliery, Rhondda, 38 men are killed.Congressional Serial Set https://books.google.com/books?id=EfsqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA593 1897 U.S. Government Printing Office 593 21 March – Welsh-born journalist Henry Morton Stanley sets out for Africa to seek missing Scottish explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone. June – Miners' strike in South Wales culminates in defeat for the union. 14 August – The Van Railway, built by David Davies Llandinam, opens to carry traffic from the Van lead mines to Caersws. 10 November – Stanley locates Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika,Penguin Pocket On This Day Penguin Reference Library 0-14-102715-0 2006 and allegedly greets him saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" date unknown Lewis Jones is appointed governor of Chubut Province by the government of Argentina.Reference Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=-j0ro22GZU8C 1994 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1234-6 278 Operations at the White Rock smelting works in Swansea are extended by Henry Hussey Vivian to include the treatment of silver and lead ore.Stephen J. Lavender New Land for Old: The Environmental Renaissance of the Lower Swansea Valley https://books.google.com/books?id=F4O3AAAAIAAJ 1981 A. Hilger 978-0-85274-386-7 11 Arts and literature Awards Evan Jones (Gurnos) wins a bardic chair at Ystradyfodwg. New books W. R. Ambrose – Hynafiaethau, Cofiannau a Hanes Presennol Nant Nantlle, y Traethawd Buddugol yn Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Pen-y-groes Robert Fowler, MD – A Complete History of the Case of the Welsh Fasting-Girl James Kenward – Ab Ithel Thomas Purnells-PURN-THO-1834 Purnell, Thomas (1834-1889), author William Llewelyn Davies 1959 22 February 2022 Dramatists of the Present Day Correspondence and Works of Charles Lamb Music John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) is appointed harpist to Queen Victoria. Sport Rugby union – Neath RFC is founded. Births 5 January – Percy Lloyd, Wales national rugby player (died 1959) 23 February – Jack Evans, Wales national rugby player (died 1924) 2 March – Billy Bancroft, sportsman (died 1959) 28 March – R. Silyn Roberts, Socialist and pacifist writer (died 1930)s-ROBE-ROB-1871 Roberts, Robert (Silyn) (Rhosyr; 1871-1930), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, social reformer, tutor David Thomas 1959 22 February 2022 1 April - Dai St. John, heavyweight boxer (died 1899) 6 April – Prince Alexander John of Wales, youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1871, shortly after birth)Hough Richard Edward and Alexandra : their private and public lives Hodder & Stoughton 1993 0-340-59700-3 London 26894665 116 12 April – Ellis William Davies, politician (died 1939)DAVIES, ELLIS WILLIAM (1871 - 1939), solicitor and politician s3-DAVI-WIL-1871 30 June 2021 15 April – John Humphreys Davies, writer (died 1926) 11 May – George Howells, academic and writer (died 1955)s2-HOWE-GEO-1871 Howells, George (1871-1955), principal of Serampore College, India Emlyn Davies 2001 22 February 2022 6 June – Evan Lloyd, Wales international rugby player (died 1951) 14 June – David Nicholl, rugby player (died 1918) July - Owen Jones, footballer (died 1955) 2 July – Sir Evan Williams, 1st Baronet, industrialist (died 1959) 3 July – W. H. Davies, poet (died 1940) 13 August – Jack Elliott, Wales international rugby player (died 1938) 21 September – Alfred Brice, Wales international rugby player (died 1938) 1 October – Sir Lewis Lougher, industrialist and politician (died 1955)s2-LOUG-LEW-1871 Lougher, Sir Lewis (1871-1955), industrialist and politician Prys Morgan 2001 22 February 2022 10 October – Thomas Gwynn Jones, poet (died 1949)s2-JONE-GWY-187 Jones, Thomas Gwynn (1871-1949), poet, writer, translator and scholar Arthur ap Gwynn Francis Wynn Jones 2001 22 February 2022 3 November – Owen Badger, Wales national rugby player (died 1939) 27 November – Robert Evans (Cybi), writer (died 1956) 29 November (in England) – Ruth Herbert Lewis, social reformer and collector of Welsh folk songs (died 1946)s2-LEWI-RUT-1871 Lewis, Lady Ruth (1871-1946), a pioneering collector of Welsh folk-songs, and advocate of educational, religious, temperance and philanthropic bodies Evan David Jones 2001 National Library of Wales 5 November 2020 1 December – Bert Dauncey, Wales international rugby player (died 1955) 3 December – Sir Percy Emerson Watkins, civil servant (died 1946) date unknown William Jenkins, politician (died 1944) Howard Passadoro, footballer (died 1921) Thomas Mardy Rees, historian and author (died 1953)s2-REES-MAR-1871 Ress, Thomas Mardy (1871-1953), Independent minister, historian and author Evan David Jones 2001 22 February 2022 Deaths 12 January – Richard Hughes, printer and publisher, 76/7s-HUGH-RIC-1794 Hughes, Richard (1794-1871), printer and publisher Eric Edwards 2001 6 March 2024 19 January – Thomas Jeremy Griffiths, minister, hymn-writer and teacher, about 75s-GRIF-THO-1797 Griffiths, Thomas (Jeremy) (Tau Gimel, 1797?-1871), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster Thomas Oswald Williams 1959 22 February 2022 30 January – Edward Howell, US politician of Welsh descent, 78 February – Robert Roberts, musician, 30s-ROBE-ROB-1840 Roberts, Robert (1840-1871), musician Robert David Griffith National Library of Wales 14 March 2019 9 May – Edward Morgan, minister and writer, 53s-MORG-EDW-1817 Morgan, Edward (1817-1871), musician Edward Morgan Humphreys 6 March 2024 23 July – Arthur James Johnes, judge, 62Johnes, Arthur James Daniel Lleufer Thomas Daniel Lleufer Thomas 30 2 August – David James (Dewi o Ddyfed), writer (born 1803) 3 October – David Marks, musician and composer, about 83s-MARK-DAV-1788 Marks, David (1788-1871), musician Robert David Griffith 6 March 2024 6 October – Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 59Edmund Burke The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year https://books.google.com/books?id=SJI-AAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA161 1872 Longmans, Green 161 2 December – Joseph Jones, Catholic priest and bard, 72s3-JONE-JOS-1799 Jones, Joseph (1799-1871), Catholic priest Eric Edwards 2001 6 March 2024 See also 1871 in Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1871 in Europe Category:1870s in Wales